Fastest-rising destinations in 2026
New active creators this year versus last — a channel counts as “active” for a country in a given year if it uploaded at least one video that year and is tagged with that country. The 2026 figure is a partial-year count (the year isn’t over), so these deltas are conservative.
Most-covered destinations right now
Distinct creators who uploaded a country-tagged video in 2026.
Biggest coverage growth since we started tracking
From each destination’s earliest recorded creator year to 2026. Early years often have a single pioneering channel, so the multiple is large by definition — the honest signal is the absolute jump in active creators.
- Italy 1 → 169 169×
- Japan 2 → 169 84.5×
- United States 2 → 157 78.5×
- Thailand 2 → 147 73.5×
- India 2 → 141 70.5×
- United Kingdom 1 → 131 131×
- Portugal 1 → 116 116×
- Mexico 1 → 95 95×
How these numbers are computed
Every figure on this page is counted at build time from the same public data that powers the rest of the site — no estimates, no round numbers. Creator counts come from the channel corpus (1,752 channels discovered, 1,743 with 1,000+ subscribers). Coverage-by-year is derived from each channel’s real upload dates across 81,286 videos. The 2,137 creator citations are counted directly from the synthesized guides, where each is tied to a named creator and a specific video ID.
We deliberately don’t publish figures we can’t stand behind — no “hours watched,” no invented engagement scores, no seasonality claims that channel-level tagging can’t support. The full methodology is on the about page. Data last verified Jul 5, 2026.